Product Description

Improve your financial picture with the one-stop solution! Money Plus Deluxe automatically consolidates your online accounts in one place, now with Insights - smart tools that let you manage finances from your desktop. Insights, with alerts customized by you, keep you in the know about the information you need most, even when Money isn't open. Bills Insights alert you when bills are overdue or due soon, spending Insights keep on top of the spending you care about most and Cash Flow Insights gives you a fast convenient view of your spending and deposits, as well as your account balances. You can attach links to important files such as check images or scanned receipts right from transactions in the Money account register. Follow the stock market? Get the top 10 daily update from MSN Money StockScouter, rate favorite stocks and challenge Wall Street gurus yourself as CAPS tracks their stock picks on MSN Money. You can even track US Markets, Treasury Markets, Currencies, Commodities and World Markets with the new MSN Money Market Dashboard. With Money Plus Deluxe, you'll always know where your money is! Get the top 10 daily update from MSN Money StockScouter See Morningstar ratings in the popular MSN Money ETF center Rate favorite stocks and challenge Wall Street gurus yourself as CAPS tracks their stock picks on MSN Money. Enhanced background banking helps keep account information up-to-date Track US Markets, Treasury Markets, Currencies, Commodities and World Markets with the NEW MSN Money Market Dashboard Check out articles from the experts on MSN Money to help you improve your finances in a particular area Share your ideas and hear ideas from others on our spending message boards

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #223 in Software
• Brand: Microsoft
• Model: KEA-00003
• Released on: 2007-08-27
• Platforms: Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP, Windows XP Professional
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .50 pounds

Features

• All your finances in one place
• Improve your financial picture
• Understand your spending
• Get a desktop glance at the information you need most
• Improve your investment strategy with help from the experts at MSN Money

Amazon.com
Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe provides all the tools you need to handle your finances in one place. The new Insights feature allows you to get a glance at your finances without even launching Money.

Money Plus Deluxe home page.

Spending Insights alert you when you've reached or are nearing your spending limits.

Cash Flow Insights show what's flowing in and out of your accounts.

Bills Insights alert you if bills are overdue or due soon.

Taking Money's award-winning features to a whole new level.
Microsoft Money Plus still provides all the tools you need to handle your finances in one place. But it also gives you a quick glance--without launching Money--at the financial information you need to keep you on top of your finances like never before.

Money's key features are still here:

• Manage your money your way, from the big picture down to the details.
• Forecast cash flow and stay on top of monthly spending.
• Tackle tax time with ease, from finding deductions to estimating taxes.
• Improve your investment strategy with help from the experts at MSN Money.
• Help protect and improve your credit, and reduce your debt.

Plus, there's so much that's new--Insights!
With Insights, get a desktop glance at the information you need most, without launching money.

Spending Insights--Alerts you when you've reached or are nearing your spending limits.

Cash Flow Insights--See what's flowing in and out of your accounts.

Bills Insights--Alerts you if bills are overdue or due soon.

Plus, enjoy even more new and improved features:

Link to statements, checks, or images from a transaction. Quickly add links to images and other files to keep important records and information handy, organized, and up-to-date.

Background banking helps ensure your account information is up-to-date.

Which version is right for you?

	DELUXE	PREMIUM	HOME & BUSINESS
KEEP YOUR FINANCES IN SHAPE
Balance your checkbook	•	•	•
Cash Flow Insights give you a glance at spending	•	•	•
Automatically categorize spending	•	•	•
Bills Insights show upcoming and overdue bills	•	•	•
Know which bills are paid and due	•	•	•
Enhanced background banking keeps information up-to-date	•	•	•
IMPROVE YOUR FINANCIAL PICTURE
Create and manage a budget	•	•	•
Link to statements, checks, or images from a transaction	•	•	•
Stay on top of credit and debt	•	•	•
Spending insights help you stay on top of spending	•	•	•
Tips, tools, articles, and integration with MSN Money	•	•	•
Value pack of financial services		Up to $450 Value	Up to $900 Value
Plan for retirement, college, and other goals	•	•	•
MANAGE TAXES
Export to tax preparation software	•	•	•
Estimate taxes and find hidden deductions	•	•	•
Minimize capital gains taxes		•	•
MANAGE INVESTMENTS
Analyze your portfolio, manage 401(k) and IRA	•	•	•
Track U.S. markets, commodities, currencies, and more	•	•	•
View Morningstar ratings in the popular ETF Center	•	•	•
The Motley Fool CAPS on MSN Money	•	•	•
Make tax-smart investment choices		•	•
MANAGE YOUR SMALL BUSINESS
Create estimates and invoices			•
View business reports and graphs			•
Do your payroll online			•
Monigot invoices and receivables			•
Track Schedule C items			•

Customer Reviews

Switched fromQuicken 2007 to Money 2008 NO PROBLEMS
I tried upgrading from Quicken 2007 to Quicken 2008 and was unable to do so without errors that caused my new installation to give an error message, remove new changes, and stop the installation.

I called Quicken tech support and the guy in India (while nice) could only help me do the same things I'd already done and that did not work. After 2 tries, he said, "I don't have any other ways to help you. Try calling Microsoft and see if they can help you. Here's their 800 number . . . Goodbye!" He hung up on me.

I decided to download Money 2008 for their trial period. Money installed immediately and completely! It transferred my Quicken data accurately and fully. (I have used Quicken for at least 16 years and this was a "big" change for me.)

I ended-up purchasing Money - on-line - from Microsoft and making my full change to their financial software, within a week from trying Money 2008. I was VERY HAPPY with the way Money worked, its interface, and its various options. It was easy to change from Quicken!!

MOST OF ALL, I liked being able to get tech support from Money's email help. My actual experience was to have an email within 4 hours, that included a name and phone number if I needed more help. (I had a small problem inputing my serial number because I had my system set to a larger than normal sized font. Money would not allow the necessary information for each spaced section. Their tech support wrote back to me with the help (answer) I needed - I had to reset the system font size to normal (which they told me how to easily do. My serial number information was immediately accepted with no problem. Now, I am the happy owner of Money 2008 and no longer an Intuit/Quicken user.

I must say, my only disliked feature of Money 2008 is it wants to send each electronic check I write for paying bills - individually, instead of allowing me to write all my checks and then send them at the same time.

I will take this problem - happily - since I now have updated financial software that is not "buggie" and with no tech support that actually helps me.

I am going to be a Money user from now on. I highly recommend Money 2008.

Same Bugs, same features, only buy if you have to
I gave been using Money 2005 for a while and have not upgraded until now because nothing seems to have changed in the newer versions. A few weeks ago I got a message saying that on-line services were no longer supported for my version and I had to buy a new version to get it working again.

I did this and installed the new version. I was not able to tell that I had upgraded because I could not see any new features. I had to go to help about to check it this was really the new version running becuase everything else looks the same. The only new feature from my "three versions behind" version is that there are a couple of graphs that can be displayed outside money but I am not sure how much that will be used.

I was hoping that some of the bugs that have been in the system had been fixed but they have not. The one I dislike most is that it gets completely confused when you short sell stocks. When you close a short position it will add that as a cost next to your other expenses for the full purchase amount and it gets completely confused about your current position when downloading statements from your broker.

For me it was worth upgrading because now my automatic downloads from my bank is working again but there is really no other reason to buy this.

Frequest crashes
I've using Microsoft Money 2004 since it came out; and before that, I used Money 98. Money 2004 recently started warning me that Microsoft will no longer be updating its online synchronization capabilities so I downloaded the trial version of Money Plus Deluxe to try it out.

Money Plus supports automated downloading of bills for banks that, over the last few years, have stopped working with Money 2004. It seems to offer the same basic features as 2004, and I haven't noticed any features that make this a better product. The interface has been tweaked slightly here and there. The one thing I liked is it clearly displays the bank's balance next to the locally calculated balance for each account. Other than that, it seems to just be a change in the colors and icons.

This biggest change to me is that, unlike Money 2004, Money Plus rarely matches downloaded transactions correctly with existing hand-entered transactions, previously downloaded transactions, or pending bills in the Bills Summary screen. What this means is each time it performs an automated update with the bank, random entries are doubled and random bills are incorrectly matched to completely unrelated transactions. To correct this you have to unmatch transactions and change what they're matched to. This wouldn't be too bad, except each time you unmatch or change how a transaction is matched, Money will stop responding. If i check the Task Manager, it'll show that Money is using 100% of the CPU time. I tried leaving Money running for a few hours when this happens to see if it will start responding again, but it never comes back. What this means is each time I sit down to update my accounts, I have to kill Money with the Task Manager 2 or 3 times for each transaction it matched incorrectly. I'll often have to kill and restart Money 20+ times in a single session. While this has been excellent for helping me remember my password, it's been less than helpful in assisting me in paying my bills and balancing my accounts.

I liked Money 2004 but, since they're not supporting that version anymore and this new version doesn't actually work, Microsoft is forcing us to switch to Quicken this year.